Help with armor

[Rico]

I'm about to hit 55 very soon and it's time for armor update ; ;. I need to get for sure.

Royal Knight Body Armor (100k ;
Medevil Collar (Quest it XD)


As for belt people say to go with Life because the more hits you land the more hate you will gain with my Galluent hand AF... so is it worth it? Or just get some type of HP VIT belt? Becuase I currently have Warrior's Belt +1 and it's useful .

Earings... Should I stay with my Drone Earings (AGI+3). Or get two Pigeon Earings? (100k ;

And for my back should I stay with my Wolf Mantle +1 or get a VIT+ armor I saw... I forgot the name...

Any information will help

[albert lee]

try to get a bernye for armor

belt... get both. good to have lifebelt if your having trouble hitting, if not use the vit belt.. if your party has a brd, use the vit belt.

earings.. get 1 pigeon and the +2 vit latent effect earing... to activate the latent effect, all you have to do is sub war.

back... get a bastok cp mantle..

[Rico]

Will the Gaia Doublet be good? It has 5 less def than IM armo but he has a nice VIT+4 anyone recomend this armor?

[Somajan]

I haven't actually used the Gaia Doublet because the IM curiass looks so much better. Sorry I had to go with style over substance at that point.

Don't forget the IM curiass also has +1 vit by itself, so you could pass it off to a cointoss at that point.

I am going to also use the RK breeches two double the effectiveness of the RK chainmail, reason being that I can hit more often and keep hitting that 1337 weaponskill "Spirits Within"

On midgardsormr though merc earrings are quite expensive, and stuff. As for a pigeon earring, I'm not sure, dunno the stats for that.

[Rico]

Pigeon Earings are 20+ HP ^^ worth 100k each, in midgard.. since when PLD become pricy? (_ _). I got Gaia Doublet (looks ok) but the VIT+4 helps out! ^^ I'm upgrading to two Drone Earings and Try.... TRy to get VIT+3 earings <_<

[janeping]

latent effect earing... to activate the latent effect, all you have to do is sub war.

Where is this information posted? I've never seen it. The only way I know to have latent effect works is to have health drops to yellow or below.

Pigeon earring is worth it. It was 150k each on Ifrit. I got 2 at level 33. As for belt, if you have a brd in pt, life belt isn't necessary. It's nice to have it around in case you need it though. I used ocean belt, now ocean sash.

As for neck, you can consider to use IM gorget at 55 as well if you have the money or cp to buy it.

[Soraan]

What albert lee said is right about the Mercenary Earrings and the latent effect... I bought some and tested it... With /WAR sub, I had +2 more VIT than when I subbed THF... so it was:

With /THF, /MNK, /BLM, anything:

62 base +25VIT

With /WAR sub:

64 base +27VIT

(Note: This is w/out food)

I believe all the lv30 BCNM earrings are solely based on your current sub, not the low HP stuff. I know the mercenary earring is... I bought it for 100k^^

So I'm currently using one Drone Earring (+3AGI) and the mercenary earring (+2VIT) as well as the Chob... um.. whatever they are called rings... adds +3VIT and a Gluttony Sword.

I hope to get an Earth Staff (-20% physical dmg, +4VIT) and a Jelly Ring (-5% Physical dmg) soon for HNM fights.